Improvement in vapor and coal-oil furnaces



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

R. O. JACKSON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,097, dated September 6, 1854.

To all whom fit may conccrn:

Be it known that I, R. C. JACKSON, ot' Detroit, in the county ot' Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Burning Petroleum, Goal-Oil, &c.; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specitication, in which- Figure l is a top view of the fire-box with the crown-sheet removed, and the deiiectors partly broken away to show the pipes. Fig. 2 is a vtrticai section of lthe tire-box in the direction of the line x a' in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a sectional view in the direction of the lines y y in Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

The nature of my invention relates to an apparatus for burning petroleum, coal-oil, naphtha, &c., as fuel, in the consumption ot' which a gas is generated and burned.

In the different tigures,A represents the tire-box; B, the waterspace between the outside and inside sheetings, a b, designed to be connected with a boiler in any desired manner. Along the firebox, underneath the boiler, are arranged detlectors and heaters O, that are supported at each end by the pieces or supports E and D, cut out at the top, so that the detlectors tit into the notches, and there are plates, m a, above to keep them downin place. These deiiectors are V-shaped, as represented in Fig. 2, widening out toward the top. The edges ot the diii'erent detlectors come together at the top, so as to leave a small space or opening, b', between them. Along directly under these openings are the pipes or tubes F, which are supported at one end by thepiece D, being curved out between the detlectors, where the pipes come, as represented in Fig. 2. The other ends ot' these pipes en ter the pipe G at that end ofthe fire-box. The pipe G has a cap, g, screwed onto each end, rendering it perfectly close at the ends. It is kept in place by the support E, that extends under the pipe and up on one side,`as represented in Fig. 3. This support is secured at each end to the sides ot' the re-box,as shown at h in Fig. 1, supporting the' pipe, and also the detlectors at that end of the tire-box.

In the water-space at one end is tie tube or screw I, through which the tube or end of the siphon H passes, and is secured as it enters the pipe G at the center. The tube H curves down outside of the tire-box in the forni ot' an inverted siplion, as seen in Fig. 3, through which the oil is conveyed from the reservoir into the tire-box, K being a cock or faucet to gage the quantity of oil discharged from the reservoir into the pipes. The oil coming from the reservoir through the si phon tiows into the pipe G, runs along this pipe, and is distributed into the different pipes F, which are heated by means of temporarily heating thc end of one or more tf tle pipes, thereby heating the oil and generating ga', whichl passes up through the gas-holes d and burns, as represented atfin Fig. 2,thet1ames issuing through the openings b between the detiectors. The pipes are so connected that as one becomes heated and generates gas the heat is rapidly conveyed to all the other pipes, and the heat frointhe burning gas issuing from the holes d is communicated to the pipes, thereby causing them const int'y t) g nerate gas, and they become in this way seIt'-generators. .l`he heaters and detlectors C, from their peculiar shape and arrangement in connection with the pipes, concentrate and intensity the heat produced by the combustion ot' the oil. They contne the heat around the pipes or tlues F, causing a rapid generation ot' gas, which produces the desired amount otl heat tor any purpose for which it may be designed.

One object of having the oil conveyed into tire box through a tube curved in the form of an inverted siphon is to prevent the gas, under any circumstance,from passing back into the reservoir, which prevents all danger ot explosion.

It is found by experience that gas is generated inore rapidly iu the pipes when they are only about half-Full ot' naphtha or oil, and in order to prevent too much oil running into the pipes F from the pipe G a plug, k, with a hole through the center, is put in the end ot' each pipe, where it enters the pipe G, the oil running through the holes in the plugs into the pipes in a sufficient quant-ity to produce the most perfectcombustion. There are plugs, c, in the other end of the pipes, which can be removed for the purpose of cleaning` out the defleetors C, when arranged and operating pipes When itis necessary, and the caps g on conjointly in the manner and for the purpose a the ends of the pipe G ea-n be taken ofi' for setforth. the saine purpose. R. C. JACKSON.

What I claim as my improvement, and de- Witnesses: f sire to secure by Letters Patent, is W. H. BURRIDGE, J5

The pipes F and G, in combination with the GEO. 1). MGKAY. 

